Be part of the Biggest Developer Conference in the Philippines! In an unprecedented collaboration with major developer groups in the country, let’s explore the development trends, practices & tools in becoming one of the best developers in the industry!

Why Attend

This year's theme, "Developers Unite Philippines" (#DevelopersUnitePH) engages the participants to be part of the growing developer ecosystem in the Philippines. In an unprecedented collaboration with the different developer groups in the Philippines, the summit adds value to participants by exploring invaluable development practices, tools and tricks for Android, iOS and Web (non-platform specific). And more importantly, this year provides an opportunity for participants to network with their fellow developers and even join the develop groups they're interested in!

05:40 PM

GeekFestPH: Drinks and Networking

Venue

DevCon Summit 2014 is a whole day conference. Check it out our complete agenda for this year. Be Awesome and more..

How to Commute

If you are coming from EDSA southbound, you have to drive towards Pasong Tamo. This means not using both of the Magallanes flyovers (going to Alabang and Baclaran) and just staying at the right lane. You will be driving for a few meters and then will be forced to take a u-turn directly under the flyovers. Take that and it will bring you to the northbound side of EDSA where the mall is located.

If you are coming from EDSA northbound, NEVER take the flyover to cross SLEX and reach the other side of EDSA since that will make you miss Alphaland Southgate Mall. What you need to do is take the route that will bring you to SLEX Manila-bound. Take Don Bosco street - this is the first street crossing the PNR railways from Magallanes. Then turn right at Pasong Tamo and go straight, you'll see the mall in the horizon, just follow the flow of traffic until you reach it.

From NORTH:

Option 1. From EDSA, ride a bus southbound to Baclaran/Alabang and get down at Magallanes. Cross EDSA via the MRT footbridge.

Option 2. From EDSA, ride the MRT bound for Taft and get down at Magallanes MRT Station.

From SOUTH:

From the South (of Makati - Pasay, Alabang Area):

Option 1. From Pasay/Baclaran EDSA, ride a bus northbound to Monumento/Fairview and get down at Magallanes. Alphaland Southgate Tower Mall is just a few steps away.

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About Developers Connect

Developers Connect Philippines (DevCon) is a BIR and SEC registered non-profit, non-government organization which aims to empower Filipino developers and promote the "IT Pinoy Talent" by providing unique venues for IT students, educators, professionals and enthusiasts to Sync, Support and Succeed.

History

DevCon was founded in June 26, 2009.

DevCon is a pioneering project of the Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA). Its pilot event, DevCon Visayas, was held at the TechBar in Cebu City. DevCon also spanned a ten-city nationwide tour as part of the Next Wave Cities roadshow run by the then Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) and Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPA/P) in 2009.

To increase its reach, DevCon has signed a partnership with the Philippine Society of IT Educators (PSITE) to make DevCon accessible to IT students nationwide. Furthermore, to ensure that DevCon's presence will continue to grow, DevCon registered under the Securities and Exchange Commission as a non-profit organization.

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Calen Legaspi

CEO of Orange and Bronze Software Labs, Inc.

Twitter: @calenlegaspi

Calen co-founded O&B to provide a venue where the Filipino engineer’s true skills are showcased. He is currently on his 7th term as a board member of the Philippine Software Industry Association.

He has initiated programs that support the Philippine academe: by providing training to teachers through the Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators, authoring technology modules for TESDA, developing responsive IT education curricula for the Commission on Higher Education, and contributing to programs aimed at enhancing the skills of IT educators.

Calen is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect, Certified Web Component Developer, and a Certified Java Programmer. He co-founded the Association of Philippine Java Developers and served as the organization's president for six years

JV Cuevas

Manager at Deltek Systems (Philippines) Ltd.

Twitter: @jancuevasdeltek

JV Cuevas is currently the manager for Automation Operation Services at Deltek Systems (Philippines), Ltd. He oversees the development of the test automation solutions for desktop, browser, mobile and cloud.

He has been with Deltek for 12 years and prior to Deltek has worked in universities, printing and pharmaceutical companies. A certified MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer), MBA, Cobol II certified, MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist) Master Certification Track, a UX advocate and has conducted various IT seminars including the IT Trail Blazing Experience event at UST. Commerce graduate of University of Santo Tomas with Best Thesis Awardee in the Systems Category for his batch year and a Dean’s Lister.

Sim Domingo

Engineer, Enterprise Support Team at GitHub, Inc.

Twitter: @meatcoder

Sim currently works at GitHub, as an engineer in the Enterprise support team. A former physicist, he sometimes dabbles in iOS development and has previously worked on system software for SMS services. He enjoys bad movies, baking, and cats.

Jason Torres

Chief Technology Officer at Proudcloud

Twitter: @jasontorres

A code junkie. A veteran Rubyist. Jason is a co-founder and CTO of Proudcloud, a Ruby on Rails and Javascript Software Consultancy shop in Manila. He currently leads technology, development operations and making sure that culture is awesome as always.

Besides software consultancy, he likes partnering and working with startups, and has proven it by building startups and apps like Artisteconnect.com, Guestlist.ph, Heygarch.com, Nowshowing.ph and more.

Allen Tan

Managing Director at White Widget

Twitter: @abgtan

Allen Tan is the Managing Director of White Widget, a startup software development company based in the Philippines. He graduated with a Computer Science degree in 2008, and has been working on software projects ever since. Allen specialises in iOS development and has helped create various interactive apps and games. He writes tutorials and e-books on his spare time and is also a regular contributor at the popular iOS tutorial website, RayWenderlich.com.

He co-founded White Widget together with Andrea Levinge, and officially started operations last January 2013. Since then, the company has been growing steadily as they work on their soon-to-be-released first game title, Face Mountain.

Matias Cascallares

Solutions Architect at MongoDB

Twitter: @mcascallares

Matias is Solutions Architect at MongoDB Inc. He has more than 10 years of experience in software development across America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. He has heavy experience in .com companies like e-commerce sites and social networks with millions of users. Based in Singapore, he helps customers from different industries to be successful using MongoDB database dealing with big and heterogenous data where flexibility and time to market are key factors for success. He is also a reference in MongoDB open source community in Asia.

Joben Rara

Technical Evangelist of Microsoft’s Developer Experience Evangelism

Twitter: @joben

Joben is a Technical Evangelist from Microsoft’s Developer Experience Evangelism (DX) team. He is an avid fan of Open Web technologies and is passionate about building mobile apps on HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was in various developer roles working on enterprise software products. As a father of 3 kids he spends a lot of time debugging the KidOS since it always crashes the “Listen to Dad” program. Someday he hopes he gets enough practice to beat his sons in Halo.

Evan Dale Aromin

Twitter: @avendael

Evan is a Software Engineer that enjoys working on Android, Python, and Javascript. He started working on Bitcoin related technologies early 2012, and his fascination with digital currencies eventually led him to join coins.ph; a Bitcoin startup that brings financial services to the unbanked. As an active member of the tech community, he helps co-organize meetups for several groups such as the Philippine Android Developers Community and Philippine Tech Hackers. Recently, he enjoys spending his (rather scarce) free time playing around with the Elixir programming language, and tinkering with mechanical keyboards. Aside from the tech stuff, he also enjoys talking to his dog, blogging, and waiting for the next season of Game of Thrones. ​

Calvin Kim

Head of Mobile Platform Partnerships, Facebook APAC

Twitter: @sensebalance

Alexis Pantola

Technical Manager of the Software Group at the IBM Innovation Center

Alexis V. Pantola is a Technical Manager of the Software Group at the IBM Innovation Center. He oversees the IBM Academic Initiative program in the Philippines and provides support to other countries in the South East Asean region such as providing instructor training in Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. He also provides support to business partners in porting their solution to IBM technologies. He is an IBM Certified Designer for Cognos Business Intelligence Reports, IBM Certified Academic Associate for DB2, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH). He completed his PhD in Computer Science at the De La Salle University where he is working as a part-time faculty member.

Leonel Fred Ador

Marketing Lead, Drupal Pilipinas

Twitter: @PonielAdor

Leonel Fred Ador is a pure Waray from Borongan, Eastern Samar. Graduated from AMA University with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. Shortly after graduation, he became a college instructor handling multimedia in the University at the age of 18. After a year, he was transferred to the Corporate office of the said institution as a Marketing Manager for the Web. He also became a Project Manager for the Social Media Department of the same institution and now a Program Manager handling partners for the institution. He is also one of the few Adobe Certified Experts in the Philippines. His background and interest in marketing and arts led him to become Drupal Pilipinas' Marketing Lead. He believes the advocacy of uplifting everyone in the industry and in the essence of being part of a community.

Jon Limjap

Twitter: @lattex

Jon Limjap has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for C# since 2009. He has been writing software professionally for 12 years writing software on everything from mainframes, to servers, desktop to mobile, and the web. He currently works as a Technical Specialist for Provoke Solutions Makati and is the president of the Philippine .NET Users Group.​

Ron Cirujano

Country Manager at Elance-Odesk Philippines

Ron Cirujano joined Elance-oDesk as Country Manager for the Philippines in March 2013 and he is responsible for Elance-oDesk’s activities within the country.
He possesses more than ten years of experience in marketing, both online and offline and prior to joining Elance-oDesk, Ron Cirujano was the Marketing Head of an international company that operates in the Philippines. He handled the global online campaign with key executions in Digital and Social Media, Pay per Click and Search Engine Optimization.

He holds BSc in Business Management and Entrepreneurship, at San Beda College, in Manila.

Jomar Tigcal

Community Manager, GDG Philippines

Twitter: @jomartigcal

SHORT BIO: Jomar Tigcal is an Android developer and one of the community managers of Google Developer Group (GDG) Philippines. On his free time, he is developing personal applications using Android, other Google technologies, and other APIs, like Sweldong Pinoy.

Bob Reyes

Mozilla Reps Mentor

Twitter: @bobreyes @mozillaph

Bob is a Mozilla Reps Mentor based in Makati City, Philippines. He has been elected to the worldwide Mozilla Reps Council recently. Bob is one of the eleven (11) Mozilla Reps based in the country today. He is passionate about technology, the Open Web and building a community of volunteers to give everyone a better web experience.​

Tristan Angeles

IGDA Manila Board Member Game Designer at Chronicle Games

Twitter: @tristanangeles

Tristan Angeles started designing games as a kid. He began with simple board games, variations of street of games, and house rules for pen and paper roleplaying games(which he didn't have the real rules for) to entertain his friends. Little did he know then that game design was a real job.Fast forward to the present, Since entering the game industry, the self taught game designer has worked for companies like Anino Games(Anino Playlab), and Gameloft, and has started working on his own games as an independent game developer for Unravel which has released its first game this year. He has several digital and analog game projects on the way, and now all he needs is time.

Cherrie Ann B. Domingo

PHP User Group Philippines, President

Twitter: @Betelguese

Chean is a soft-hearted techie who has found passion in her organizations and has been active in the online community. She is the President of PHP User Group Philippines (PHPUGPH) and as one of its leaders, spearheads the organization since 2007 with various projects and events. Her career now focuses more on Database Administration after few years of being in PHP development. Chean always believes that sharing of knowledge is her lifetime mission because one must leave a legacy for everyone.​

Mark Steve Samson

Python PH, Meetup Organizer and Trustee Insync, Web Developer

Twitter: @themarksteve

A self-taught web developer and game developer wannabe. I started getting interested with programming in my first year of high school. I learned Javascript first but fell in love with Python. PHP was my mistress in between. Web has been my platform of choice because of its reach and my hate for compilers.